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to the top of a high mountain ; and the little brother said, "This is as 

 far as we can go, and if she comes, she can kill all of us." 



The old woman came to the tipi and found the seven brothers and 

 the sister gone, and she looked around the tipi and could find no tracks, 

 and when she entered the tipi and looked up and saw .breath feathers 

 (eagle down) from an arrow sticking through the opening at the top, 

 she went through the top and followed the seven brothers and the sis- 

 ter through the air, to where they were. 



When the seven brothers and the sister saw a black cloud, they 

 knew she was coming, and they prepared to fight her, and in the fight 

 that followed her coming, all the brothers but the youngest, and the 

 adopted sister, were killed. The little brother took his shield and battle 

 axe and killed the old woman. After killing her, he restored his broth- 

 ers to life again, and said, "We are no longer fit to live in this world, 

 for you all have been killed ; so let us all go up above and remain always 

 together." 



They all went up and were turned into the seven stars, forming the 

 Dipper, and' the sister was turned into the little star near the Dipper. 



22. — The Selfish Chief and the Two Boys. 



Once upon a time, there lived a bad, selfish chief, who took the 

 best of everything from his followers, and who could not be harmed 

 and was very strong. He would take all the teeth of >the elk at all the 

 killings and would take another man's wife if he liked her looks. 

 There was also a grandmother who had two grandsons, the older one 

 having a pretty wife, whom the chief took away from the husband, 

 leaving three in the family. 



One day a big buffalo hunt was held, and during the killing, the bad 

 chief sat near the edge of the killing place and looked on while ten of 

 his men selected the best of the meat and the skins. The young grand- 

 son went to the river to get a drink and just as he got to the river, he 

 saw a buffalo cow dead, an arrow in her side. 



The cow was fat and was about to have a calf; The boy took his 

 knife and cut the best parts of the cow and took the calf with him and 

 placed it in a hollow of a tree. Just then one of the ten men of the 

 chief came over to him, and inquired who killed the cow, and the boy 

 said, "I do not know, for I found it lying here." The man told the 

 chief that somebody had killed a fat cow and taken the best parts of 

 it and that there was a little boy near it. This made the chief angry, 

 and as the people were returning home, he commanded them to stop 

 and inquired who killed the cow. All denied having done so. 



